23 May
2000
23 May
'00
5:35 p.m.
At 10:53 AM 5/23/00 -0700, Vintage Computer GAWD! wrote:
I am making the assumption that most of these ASCII art
files were scanned
from actual pictures and then rendered by some software?
If so, is this software still around??? And what hardware was used to
scan them?
There is/was an SGI tool to convert bitmap animations to ASCII.
Back in 1998, you were a participant in the CCC thread on
this topic which said:
It's been done. <http://www.vuk.org/ascii/film/> has a number of
movie clips converted to ASCII, and then played via a Java applet.
If you aren't on a well-equipped browser on a fast link, forget it.
I do recognize the irony of this situation.
These movies were created with the SGI 'ttyvideo' package,
<http://reality.sgi.com/employees/cpirazzi_esd/ttyvideo.html>,
which lets you convert a bitmap animation or real-time video capture
(the SGI Indy includes a camera) to an animated or static ASCII version.
- John